Social Threads: On Voice, Audio, and Matters Sonic…

Below are social threads -- mainly ones from Linkedin -- instigated by our CEO, Ahmed Bouzid.  Lots of interesting discussions and conversations.  Feel free to join in and pitch in with your own thoughts.

• On the Matter of Digital Addiction
• "Sadder than a small machine!"
• What is the WORST bot for talking to?
• Should we ban the use of smartphones by minors?
• Is the Ad-based business model inherently unethical?
• How would you describe your stand on the progress the Amazon Echo has made in the last 7 years? 
• How often do you use your voice assistant (Amazon Echo, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby, Apple Siri) to calculate something?
  Two innovations: why now?
• How do you feel about a voice assistant (Amazon's, Google's, Apple's) saying your name when it's interacting with you? 
• Is Facebook ethically delinquent in how it adjusts its algorithms to effectively promote disinformation and hate speech?
• What do you think about Amazon's Astro?
• How do you think a voicebot should respond to an insult, a slur, a misogynistic comment?
• On conversational turn end-pointing....
• On Persona in Voice UX Design
• So. #NFTs. Where do you stand on them, as of now?
• The Launch of the Sonic Multicast
• Social Audio -- Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Discord, Spotify Greenroom -- a passing fad or here to stay?
• Do you think that the Amazon team acted responsibly when they decided to name their assistant "Alexa"?
• Would you pay Facebook $1.99/month to use them if in return they would stop using and sharing your data?
• Amazon has started advertising on Alexa. If Amazon were to ask you to pay $1.99/month to continue using Alexa, would you pay it?
• Sound and Language: Homogeneity and Decentalization
• AI and Art 
• What does everyone think about social bots? 
• What is a PR-FAQ?
• Voicebots vs. chatbots
• How is technology affecting the way speak and write
• What do human language technologists think about eliminating people's livelihoods?
• Do I love or hate Alexa?
• What smart speakers need to do if they want to get real adoption  
• Witlingo's One Pizza Initative
• Advice to aspiring voice ux folks
• How should a bot react to verbal abuse?
• Product managers vs Engineers!
• On Tech addiction